Energy storage systems /

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"Version: 20170701"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references (pages 14-17).Preface -- 1. Introduction : the uses of storage -- 2. Energy storage criteria : size, cost and utility -- 3. What's on offer : current and new developments -- 3.1. Electro-chemical storage -- 3.2. Mechanical systems -- 3.3. Thermal systems -- 3.4. Hydrogen options -- 4. Outlook : the issues ahead -- 5. Additional resources.As renewable energy use expands there will be a need to develop ways to balance its variability. Storage is one of the options. Presently the main emphasis is for systems storing electrical power in advanced batteries (many of them derivatives of parallel developments in the electric vehicle field), as well as via liquid air storage, compressed air storage, super-capacitors and flywheels, and, the leader so far, pumped hydro reservoirs. In addition, new systems are emerging for hydrogen generation and storage, feeding fuel cell power production. Heat (and cold) is also a storage medium and some systems exploit thermal effects as part of wider energy management activity. Some of the more exotic ones even try to use gravity on a large scale. This short book looks at all the options, their potentials and their limits. There are no clear winners, with some being suited to short-term balancing and others to longer-term storage. The eventual mix adopted will be shaped by the pattern of development of other balancing measures, including smart-grid demand management and super-grid imports and exports.Final-year undergraduates, new PhD students and early-career scientists.Also available in print.Mode of access: World Wide Web.System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.Professor David Elliott BSc PhD has worked in the power engineering industry and in academia and has written extensively on sustainable energy system development and linked energy policies, including two books on renewable energy for the IoP. He is Emeritus Professor of Technology Policy at the Open University where he worked for many years developing courses and research on sustainable energy innovation issues.Title from PDF title page (viewed on August 14, 2017).

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1 online resource (viii, 17 pages) :color illustrations.

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English

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9780750315319

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621.042

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Alternative & renewable energy industries.
Energy storage.
Environmental Physics & Clean Technology.

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David Elliott.

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